From c6a0dd7ec6fb2d4927979ed4dc562fc5c122d826 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:51:32 -0800 Subject: ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically Return -EINVAL for the bad size and for unrecognized NT_* type in ptrace_regset() instead of -EIO. Also update the comments for this ptrace interface with more clarifications. Requested-by: Roland McGrath Requested-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha LKML-Reference: <20100222225240.397523600@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c') diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 13b4554d8fb..42ad8ae729a 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static int ptrace_regset(struct task_struct *task, int req, unsigned int type, int regset_no; if (!regset || (kiov->iov_len % regset->size) != 0) - return -EIO; + return -EINVAL; regset_no = regset - view->regsets; kiov->iov_len = min(kiov->iov_len, -- cgit v1.2.3